Open Source Conferencing Software

Tox is a peer to peer (serverless) instant messenger that focuses on security and privacy. In today's world where digital surveillance is rampant, Tox offers users a communication software alternative that's free from prying eyes and ears, and is, quite literally free and without advertising. Tox comes with all the great features you'd expect from an instant messenger application, including voice calls, video calls, file sharing and screen sharing. Everything done on Tox is encrypted using open-source libraries so you can be assured of completely private conversations. It also has no central servers that can be raided, shut down, or forced to turn over data. There are no corporate interests, no hidden agendas-- just simple, secure and easy to use messaging.

Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.

WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the internet, independant of local network organization.

See http://silcnet.org/ for detailed information. SILC provides common chat and conferencing services like private messages, instant messages, channels and groups, and video and audio conferencing. The main difference to other protocols is that SILC has been designed with security as its main feature. All packets and messages sent in SILC network are always encrypted. Private messages are encrypted end-to-end, channel message are encrypted with channel-wide secret key and secure file transfer is protected peer-to-peer.

This is a web based instant 1 on 1 private online video conferencing solution. It's a solution for conducting easy to setup face to face meetings without leaving your office or home. It's the easiest and most cost-effective way to meet somebody and discuss one on one, to make a video call just by providing a private room access link.

VoiceChatter is a free, open source, and cross platform voice chat application. It is built for gaming, so it is light weight, yet delivers excellent voice quality over minimal bandwidth and latency. For more, visit http://www.voicechatter.net

Sofia-SIP - a RFC3261 compliant SIP User-Agent library.

MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.

Random Webcam Video Chat key features: + Facebook integration (exclusive mode supported) + Filters: users choose their chat partners by gender, location + Cirrus independent (can stream using rtmp server) + Logs including text chat and webcam snapshots, log comments + Latest girls and boys (with profile links for members) + Monetization: ads inside chat (supports rotator and paid cam site feeds) Sites with similar concept and features: ChatRoulette, Omegle, ChatRT, ChatRevolve, FaceBuzz, RandomCams, t.vu (ChatRoulette mirror), FlipChat, HeyPeople , StirChat, FaceBuzz, ChatHopper, ShufflePeople, CamStumble, HeyReddit, Zupyo, TinyChat, Stickam-Shuffle, anoChat, videoEncounter, FaceRoulette, NastySpace, ZapandTalk , patchRoulette, ChatRevolve, ChatPig (German), RanChat (South Korea), VdChat (Chinese), Catpapo (Brazil), Tipitty (Spanish), CamToya (français), MoveYourCam (français), ChatClock, RudeRoulette, ManRoulette. Demo live site: http://www.videoencounter.com/

Novus Ordo Seclorum (Ordo for short) is a pathologically secured, invitation only secure communications framework. It is built on top of the Freenet crypto libraries.

Simple, small, secure web conferencing on any platform that supports Java.

THIS PROJECT HAS MOVED Please visit https://github.com/obriencj/meanwhile The Meanwhile project is an open implementation of the Lotus Sametime client protocol. The project provides a library written in C, a python module, and a Gaim plugin utilizing the library.

The xiffian project is a chat application made in ActionScript (flash) using a jabber (jabberd, jive...) server and the XIFF Library.

ARSC is a webchat system that uses PHP and MySQL and allows comfortable chatting with every browser on the surface of this planet, using JavaScript, frames HTML streaming for modern browsers down to a one-page reload-yourself version for text browsers.

An initiative to create something similar to the windows program Roger Wilco, Teamspeak, BattleCom and Speak Freely, allowing users from different platforms talk with each other in real time with minimal CPU and bandwidth usage. Voice chat.....

Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) and conferencing project. This product has been deprecated. Please see the replacement product, CoolCollaborator, at http://coolcollaboratr.sourceforge.net/

A MSN Messenger client written in C++, using the Qt toolkit. Distributed under the BSD license.

Help Center Live is a Live Support tool written in PHP, using a MySql database, that allows visitors on a webste to hold a conversation in real time with a representative of the website. *** VISIT HTTP://WWW.HELPCENTERLIVE.COM FOR DOWNLOADS ***

HiveBoard is an open source shared graphical whiteboard application that is targeted at professional meetings. It includes interactive chat. It is written in Java and requires a Servlet Container (eg jakarta Tomcat) and a DBMS (eg MySQL) for the server.

Jabber (www.jabber.org) client for Mac OS X.

Laffer Project is an effort to build complete IM environment using the model for developing Open Source Software. Laffer Project comprises of several small projects.

A simple but functional and powerful Java-based chat-server and chat-client.

ele (enCore Learning Environment) is a moo- and web-based environment (server, db, GUI) designed for educational purposes. It aids and promotes online learning and community building through open standards and ease of use. http://encore-consortium.org/

A cross-platform (java based) open source 3d chat platform.. Provides a python programming interface and internal program editor.

This is an Instant Messenger client and server written fully in CGI with Perl. Users can register their nickname, and chat when anyone comes online. Also you can see they webcam.